Authors
- President of Center for Strategic and Budgetary AssessmentsDr. Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr. is President of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, an independent policy research institute established to promote innovative thinking about defense planning and investment strategies. He assumed this position 17 years ago following a 21-year career in the U.S. Army.
- American resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute
Frederick W. Kagan, author of the 2007 report Choosing Victory: A Plan for Success in Iraq, is one of the intellectual architects of the successful “surge” strategy in Iraq. He is the director of AEI’s Critical Threats Project and a former professor of military history at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
- Associate Professor at Georgetown University
Colin H. Kahl is an associate professor at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. From 2009 to 2011, he was the deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East.
- Senior Research Fellow, INSSEphraim Kam served as a colonel in the Research Division of IDF Military Intelligence until 1993, when he joined the Jaffee Center. Positions he held in the IDF included assistant director of the Research Division for Evaluation and senior instructor at the IDF's National Defense College.
- Ya’akov Dov "Katzele" Katz (Hebrew: יעקב "כצל'ה" כץ) (born 29 September 1951) is an Israeli politician. He currently leads the National Union party, for whom he is a member of the Knesset, and is also the Executive Director of Beit El yeshiva Center Institutions and Arutz Sheva.
- Director of the Center for Middle East Public Policy
Dalia Dassa Kaye is the director of the Center for Middle East Public Policy and a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation.
- Director of Regional Strategic Programs at the Center for the National Interest
Geoffrey Kemp is the Director of Regional Strategic Programs at the Center for the National Interest. He received his Ph.D. in political science at M.I.T. and his M.A. and B.A. degrees from Oxford University. He served in the White House during the first Reagan administration and was Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Senior Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs on the National Security Council Staff.
- Joanna Kidd is director of the ICSA. Prior to joining King’s College in 2003, she worked as a defense analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. This article is based on field research conducted by the authors for a project on multilateral nuclear approaches in the Middle East commissioned to the Centre for Science and Security Studies at King’s College by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress
Lawrence J. Korb is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. He is also a senior advisor to the Center for Defense Information and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. Prior to joining the Center for American Progress he was a senior fellow and director of National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Dr Korb served as assistant secretary of defense (manpower, reserve affairs, installations, and logistics) from 1981 through 1985.
- Department of Government, Cornell University
- Associate professor and International Relations Field Chair in the department of government at Georgetown University
Matthew Kroenig is an associate professor and International Relations Field Chair in the department of government at Georgetown University, a senior fellow at the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security at the Atlantic Council, and the author of the forthcoming book A Time to Attack: The Looming Iranian Nuclear Threat.
- Retired Israeli Air Force ColonelYonathan Lerner specializes in management of strategic processes in business corporations and organizations in various sectors. He is a retired colonel who served in Israel Air Force intelligence and served as head of strategic planning in the IDF General Staff (1990-1998). He has worked with INSS on simulation games.
- Professor at the Pennsylvania State University School of International Affairs.Flynt Leverett is a former senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C. and a professor at the Pennsylvania State University School of International Affairs. From March 2002 to March 2003, he served as the senior director for Middle East affairs on the National Security Council (NSC).
- Director of Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Matthew Levitt is the Fromer-Wexler fellow and director of The Washington Institute's Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence.
- Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Global Economy and Development, John L. Thornton China CenterKenneth Guy Lieberthal is an American academic. He is senior fellow in Foreign Policy and Global Economy and Development at the Brookings Institution, a nonprofit public-policy organization based in Washington, D.C